Liege 1636 daler
This specimen was lot 720 in Jean Elsen sale 138 (Brussels, September 2018), where it sold for €80 (about US$111 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"LIEGE, Principauté, Ferdinand de Bavière (1612-1650), AR nouveau daler Ferdinand de 32 sols, 1636, Liège. Avec titre de Bavière ajouté au revers. D/ B. à g. R/ Cartouche aux armes de Bouillon, sous une couronne, entre F-B. En dessous, XXXII-1636. Beau à Très Beau. (prince-bishopric of Liège, Ferdinand of Bavaria, 1612-50, silver new thaler of 32 sols of 1636, Liège mint, with the title of Bavaria added to the reverse. Obverse: bust to left; reverse: cartouche with the capped arms of Bouillon, between "F-B", date below. Fine to very fine.)"
The bishopric of Liège was an ecclesiastical state in central Belgium and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. The surrounding territory was ruled by the Spanish Hapsburgs from about 1500 until 1700 and the Austrian Hapsburgs 1714-97. This type was struck 1619-25, 1630, 1634-37, 1641, 1645-46. It is listed in the SCWC as a daler of 30 patards but we side with Elsen calling this a daler of 32 sols. A patagon was 48 sols, making this coin two-thirds of a patagon. Ferdinand, a Bavarian, would have been familiar with the gulden, worth two-thirds of a thaler.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 16,37 g.
Catalog reference: Dav-4291, KM 60.4, Chestret 591; Delm-467; Dengis 1033B.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1600-1700, Galesburg, IL, 1974.
- Jean-Luc Dengis, Les Monnaies de la Principauté de Liege, 3 vols. Wetteren: Moneta, 2006.
- [1]Elsen, Philippe, et al., Vente Publique 138, Collection A. BLONDEL, Collection M. HENDRICKX, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils, S.A., 2018.
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